sbdcsierra Chapter 943: Paying For It
Chapter 943: Paying For It
Now they have almost all contacted the gangsters in Weizhou from the governor to the junior officials in Weizhou. The new official has three fires. The newly appointed governor can kill the original governor as a warning to others their deterrence.
As the saying goes, the law does not blame the people, if all of them are killed, who should govern Weizhou?
Lord Inspector's current behavior should be to make big things into small things.
As long as they donate some symbolically to give the governor a step down, the matter should be over
Weizhou Sima tentatively stepped forward, looked at Su Jiyuan's cupped hands and said, "Master Inspector is worried about the people of Weizhou, and I admire him. I am willing to donate three thousand taels to build bridges and roads for the people of Weizhou."
Su Jiyuan heard Weizhou Sima's words with a sincere look in his eyes: "Three thousand taels? Can you add more? The people of Weizhou are in poverty. As the court order and the people's parents, we should do our best to benefit the people." yes."
Weizhou Sima heard Su Jiyuan's words, and said: "Master Inspector, if you don't dare to disobey, I will donate another five hundred taels to the people of Weizhou."
Weizhou Sima has been searching for people's fat and people's ointment for a few years, and he also colluded with the bandits to collect the annual offerings of the bandits. The family property is rich, and it is not a problem to draw 3,500 taels out of tens of thousands of taels, but it is still possible. Weizhou Sima felt a pain in his flesh.
What's wrong with buying three thousand five hundred taels?
What is the difference between donating to these untouchables and throwing away?
Su Jiyuan looked at Weizhou Sima and asked: "Master Sima really doesn't want to add more?"
Weizhou Sima said: "My lord, the governor, the lower officials spent all their property to get together three thousand five hundred taels. If there is more, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it out."
Su Jiyuan nodded, sat behind the desk, and waved his hand.
Two of the shadow guards in the row behind Su Jiyuan immediately stepped out, drew out their long swords and beheaded Sima Weizhou on the spot.
The civil and military officials present couldn't help shrinking in fright when they saw this scene. Weizhou Sima, the second highest official next to the governor, just didn't inform the imperial court to get rid of his fame, and didn't inform Yushitai to investigate his crimes thoroughly. Was beheaded on the spot like this?
Where does the governor put the law?
Su Jiyuan unhurriedly found a few papers from a stack of papers on the table, coughed and said, "Don't be nervous, colleagues, you just like to forget things when you're old, this Master Sima came out It was only then that I suddenly remembered that Lord Sima had colluded with bandits and bandits, and even embezzled the money allocated by the imperial court to Weizhou for the restoration of people's livelihood. His Majesty's intention is to execute the law on the spot. I don't feel that this Lord Sima donated less, everyone, don’t overthink it, I definitely don’t mean that, everyone should do what they can according to their family’s conditions.”
After instructing the officials, big and small, Su Jiyuan said to the shadow guard behind him: "Your Majesty has an order to search the mansion of Sima in the state, confiscate the property of his two families, and confiscate the male and female family members into the Jiaofang Division. After a few days of accounting, During his term of office, this State Sima made a total of more than 76,000 taels of illegal profits. This is what the official can find out, so the actual copies must be more. "
A shadow guard behind Su Jiyuan was ordered to go out immediately, and began to lead people to ransack the house.
At this time, Su Jiyuan was in a very comfortable mood. He had no good impression of the official position of Sima.
In the past, as a county magistrate, he couldn't provoke Sima, but now let alone one Sima, ten Sima will be killed for you.
Seeing this scene, all the officials in the state government finally understood what the governor wanted to do.
What the Governor-in-chief didn't want to make them feel at all, he just let the past go by with the mentality that the law does not blame the public.
This Lord Inspector is clearly testing them!
On the surface, it looks like a donation, but in fact, it wants you to hand over all the money you have been greedy for.
It is possible to forget the past by handing over the money, but if you don't pay the money, you must be dead!
Weizhou Sima just now is a living example!
Now many officials in Weizhou are finally getting scared, and they are starting to pay.
Officials in the prefectural government took out tens of thousands of taels, and some of the remaining county magistrates could even take out tens of thousands of taels of silver.
They didn't dare to show less. The thick stack of papers on Mr. Inspector's desk showed that Mr. Inspector must have the evidence of their collusion with the bandits and the figures of their embezzlement.
If the ones that come out are different from the ones on Mr. Inspector's desk, they will definitely end the game!
Fortunately, Weizhou is relatively poor and there are not many entertainment facilities. Even if they are greedy for money, they have no place to spend it in this poor country, and they can only spend it after they retire.
So most of the money is still in his own hands, otherwise, if he can't hand it over, his own money will probably be handed over to his own head like Zhou Sima.
In fact, what they didn't expect was that they were right about one thing. At present, the new Jinshi has not yet come down. It is impossible for Su Jiyuan to replace all the officials in Weizhou at this time, even if he comes down and wants to replace a state. Officials, that is also a fantasy.
It is true that the law does not blame the public.
Su Jiyuan couldn't pull them all out and cut them down.
So under Xu Qing's suggestion, Su Jiyuan adopted this compromise method and asked them to hand over the money consciously.
King Xian also used this method, but he searched for them one by one, leaving some faces for those officials.
Now Su Jiyuan didn't have the time to find them one by one, so he just took it all at once.
But who knew that these officials were so dishonest.
You have to let yourself kill one to understand what you mean.
Really, as expected, Weizhou's life was too comfortable, which made them forget what it means to be cruel in officialdom.
This method is a bit similar to the criminal silver system, where you pay the silver to avoid your crime.
But there is still a fundamental difference.
The system of negotiating crimes and silver, which means that if you give silver, you will be exonerated, can be said to have planted a huge hidden danger for the court. The privileges of the rich are getting bigger and bigger, and those without money have no human rights.
Su Jiyuan's method is different. You are not exonerated from the legal point of view if you hand over your money. Your crime and the evidence to prove your crime still exist.
I have put down the investigation for the time being, but I can turn over the file at any time and start to settle accounts with you again.
You just won a temporary chance to live.
These officials have to obediently pay the money, because if you don't pay the money, you will die now!
These Weizhou officials, big and small, can tell which is more important!